Instructional Designer & Curriculum Specialist

C O R I N N E B R E E N

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER & CURRICULUM SPECIALIST

EDUCATION

 1995 Masters of Education (Curriculum & Instruction), Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada.

 1990 Bachelor of Science (Mathematics & Physics), Bachelor of Education (secondary), Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1992 – Present Marine Institute St. John’s, NF . Instructional Design Coordinate and develop instructional design resources. Identify effective learning strategies and course design. Coordinate delivery logistics and communicate with relevant departments. Provide instructional design, development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation for in-house and external clients. Produce operational tools for delivery and task analysis for projects; provide professional development presentations on the topics of distance learning, project management and online facilitation using learning management systems for faculty.

. Curriculum Development Develop the course curriculum for new and existing programs. Produce and organize curriculum outlines with faculty members while discussing their teaching and learning options. Lead product development teams consisting of subject matter experts/faculty, technical consultants, learning technology programmers, web site and graphics developers, editors, and word processors. Liaise with administrators and partners.

. Relationship Building Establish partnerships, internal and external networks. Provide team leadership; work as team member. Utilize superior oral and written skills and practice negotiation skills with teams and partners. Strong knowledge of technical vocation education and training (TVET) and demonstrated sensitivity to working in teams and within a multi-cultural environment.

1992 – 1995 Marine Institute St. John’s, NF Mathematics & Physics Instructor . Educator & Tutor Responsible for teaching physics and math courses and labs to first year, post-secondary diploma students.

M A R I N E I N S T I T U T E • S T . J O H N ' S , N F • C A N A D A , A 1 C 5 R 3 P H O N E 7 0 9 - 7 7 8 - 0 5 8 8 • E - M A I L C O R I N N E . B R E E N @ M I . M U N . C A STRENGTHS . Providing local and international workshops in online teaching and available educational technology tools. Developed numerous face-to- face and online workshops for faculty to enhance their teaching and learning.

. Encouraging people to evaluate their present practices and when applicable implementing current technology to enhance their work and teaching experiences.

. Working with stakeholders from the needs analysis to the accreditation stage to develop a comprehensive program structure for all associated courses.

. Developing and redesigning curriculum and instruction for online delivery.

. Teaching large groups and tutoring individual students with regard to e-learning, computer literacy and current practices in post-secondary education.

. Leading internal and external multimedia teams.

. Designing and developing both distance education courses and commercial information packages.

INTERNATIONAL WORK

. Cambodia - Technical Missions and Curriculum Development Workshops. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2009, 2010, 2011. . Mozambique – Technical Mission and Curriculum Development, Maputo, Mozambique, Africa 2008. . Ireland - Institute of Technology Tralee, “Designing and Developing Online Courses (Workshop), Tralee, Ireland, 2005, 2006, 2007. . Ireland - Cork Institute of Technology, “E-Learning and Instructional Design” (Workshop), Cork, Ireland, 2005. . Curriculum development and sharing for Canada-European Community Program for Co-operation in Higher Education and Training (CIMET), 2006. . Australia - Presenter - International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) annual conference, Tasmania, Australia 2004. . Philippines – Maritime Training Compliance, “Design and Facilitation of Online Courses (Workshop)”, Iloilo, Philippines, 2002. . Ireland - European Union Agreement – “eLearning Instructional Design Workshop”, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, 2002. . Indonesia - Marketing and Distance Education for Southeast Asian Ministry of Education (SEAMEO), “Developing and Teaching Courses in WebCT” (Workshop), Jakarta, Indonesia, 2001. . Delivered a variety of instructional design and curriculum development workshops over the years to visiting partners.

M A R I N E I N S T I T U T E • S T . J O H N ' S , N F • C A N A D A , A 1 C 5 R 3 P H O N E 7 0 9 - 7 7 8 - 0 5 8 8 • E - M A I L C O R I N N E . B R E E N @ M I . M U N . C A M A R I N E I N S T I T U T E • S T . J O H N ' S , N F • C A N A D A , A 1 C 5 R 3 P H O N E 7 0 9 - 7 7 8 - 0 5 8 8 • E - M A I L C O R I N N E . B R E E N @ M I . M U N . C A